GameDev News - Week Ending March 23, 2018
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
- Unity 2017.4.0
- Unity 2017.2.2p2
- Unity 2018.1.0b12
- Unity Unveils 2018 Roadmap at GDC
- Unity GDC keynote
- Take the Next Leap: Unity and Magic Leap Partner to Deliver Technical Preview
- Asset Store: New Publishers Powering Your Next High-end Project
- OctaneRender for Unity update
- Visualize that! Behind the scenes with Bolt for Visual Scripting
- Unity 2018.1.0b12 C# reference source code
- Unreal
- Epic Games GDC 2018 Updates Underscore AAA Quality Support for Unreal Engine Developers on All Platforms
- $12m of Epic Games' Paragon assets now free to all developers
- Epic and Ali-A demo Fortnite replay tool at GDC Unreal keynote
- Epic Games Demonstrates Real-Time Ray Tracing in Unreal Engine 4 with ILMxLAB and NVIDIA
- Unreal Engine 4 Supports Magic Leap One
- Epic Games and 3Lateral Introduce Digital Andy Serkis
- Amazon/Lumberyard
- CryEngine
- VR/AR
- Magic Leap Creator Portal (and more)
- Microsoft
- Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing!
- Gaming with Windows ML
- DirectX Raytracing Tutorials
- Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 Preview 1
- Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17128 for Fast
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17627 for Skip Ahead
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17120 now available
- Other
- GDC 2018 Event Coverage from Gamasutra
- GDC 2018 Presentations
- Facebook Instant Games platform opens up to all developers
- Facebook's New Games SDK for PC Game Development
- Google doubles down on mobile games with new store Google Play Instant
- NVIDIA RTX Technology: Making Real-Time Ray Tracing A Reality For Games
- Unity
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
- VR/AR
- Other
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild triumphs at Game Developers Choice Awards
- Night in the Woods, Baba Is You win big at the 2018 IGF Awards
- Why Unity and Universal are giving indies access to Hollywood IP
- Vivendi sells its entire stake in Ubisoft
- Nintendo Switch breaks records for first-year US sales
- Tencent's Q4 profit doubles
- Ubisoft and Tencent form 'strategic agreement' to bring games to China
- Nintendo reveals best-selling indie Switch games
- SteamSpy: The top 100 games on Steam accounted for 50% of sales revenue last year
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
- The making of Dark Castle: An excerpt from The Secret History of Mac Gaming
- Sonic the Hedgehog's origin story, according to the devs who made him
- 25 years on, devs reflect on the influence and impact of Star Fox
- Obituary: Toys 'R' Us founder Charles Lazarus
- The Game of Everything, Part 2: Playing Civilization